London: R. Wellington, 1712. Later edition.Banks was a lawyer turned playwright, who wrote "One of the most consistently popular tragedies on the London stage" (Sutherland English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century"). Dryden contributed the Prologue and the Epilogue to this historical tragedy, first printed in 1682, then 1685, 1693, and 1699.Read More about The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy

London: R. Wellington, 1703. Later edition.Banks was a lawyer turned playwright, who wrote "One of the most consistently popular tragedies on the London stage" (Sutherland English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century"). Dryden contributed the Prologue and the Epilogue to this historical tragedy, first printed in 1682, then 1685, 1693, and 1699.Read More about The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy

Presentation copy

[Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [1986]. Presentation copy. A lovely association copy to a significant Beckett collaborator in the last years of his life. The presentation reads: "For Rick with love from Sam Sept 88".Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett's lasting fame. No matter that he'd been... Read More about En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes

Author's presentation copy & fine association

New York: Grove Press, 1960. Evergreen edition. Author's presentation copy & fine association. Beckett's inscription reads: "for Teresita with love from Sam London, 1.3.84".A one act play, with nothing but the title character and a tape recorder on stage, Krapp's Last Tape was written for the Irish actor Patrick Magee... Read More about Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces

[London]: [1931]. Beerbohm, Max.First edition, Number 134 of 900 copies.At the request of Charles Cochran, the producer of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta, Beerbohm did drawings of Coward, Cochran, and the principals: Peggy Wood, Georges Metaxa, and Ivy St. Helier. This was the last book of caricatures Beerbohm published.Read More about Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet

SIGNED by Coward, Cochran, and Cast

London: [1931]. Number 84 (?) of 100 copies. SIGNED by Coward, Cochran, and Cast. Rare portfolio commemorating Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. "Sentiment is out of fashion," says Beerbohm in his note. "Yet Bittersweet, which is nothing if not sentimental, is not a dead failure ... Sentiment goes on; unaffrighted... Read More about Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet